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Storage Protect Family

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VM Replication at Host Level

Ability to replicate virtual machines at the Hypervisor host level, allowing VMs to failover to secondary site and continue services, without the need for restore from TSM backup. This would be a compliment to the backup and recovery services prov...
about 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

Red Hat Pacemaker Cluster Services support with IBM Spectrum Protect

IBM Services have many enterprise customers with regulatory requirements that requires high availability (HA) on all IBM Spectrum Protect servers that handle critical data both at on-premise data center as remote data centers. In cases where HA is...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

Querying actlog with option MSGNO can only be done with one argument, this should be extendend to use more arguments

The search in Actlog with the msgno option should be extended so that it is possible to search for several message numbers. For example, msgno=0293,0294 should be possible in a query so that you can see the start and end of an action, therefore yo...
11 months ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

SpectrumProtectPlus Feature add

Government Audit requirement, customer is requesting. Is there a way on the back end to rename an SLA without impact existing backup data in SPP? 2. Can an editable “description” field be added to the SLA object in the SPP dashboard so we can indi...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

allow audit of copy-container pools

Some customers demand proof-read of tape based storage pools on a regular basis. We have used AUDIT VOLUME for this purpose even though its primary purpose is to check consistency of data but by doing that, it also reads all data from the tapes. B...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Deligate tasks (migration) to data mover servers

When IBM TSM is used for archiving petabytes of data for long term, massive data migration is expected specially when changing media technology. Today, the migration process can only happen on the server, and thus creates a huge load on the server...
about 9 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 0 Not under consideration

Support for wildcards in directory restore command.

Support for wildcards in directory restore command.We want to have same wildcard ussage for Query backup command and Restore command. Now are wildcards in restore command restricted to be used in the file name or extension; they cannot be used in ...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 1 Future consideration

Ability to restore a mailbox to a PST without connecting to an Exchange Server

Customers require to restore mailbox without needing to connect to an Exchange Server
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Not under consideration

encryptkey with LAN-free does not work on Spectrum Protect v8.1.6

End User upgrade their IBM Spectrum Protect to version 8.1.6. They requested to have client encryption to fulfill their security requirements. However, the client encryption function that supported before is told no longer working now ("encryptkey...
over 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Tape optimization recall termination improvement

The product has several recall types.Tape optimization recall(TOR) is one of them.Now you terminate a TOR, it waits to complete the current recall. It is important to implement a more granular TOR termination technique.
over 4 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Space Management 1 Not under consideration

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